Posted on 07/18/2017 12:34:42 PM PDT by SJackson
Gretchen Hammond, the transgender Jewish journalist who revealed what took place, has spoken about what happened after her story was published
Jewish LGBT Pride marchers waving a Star of David Pride flag at the London Pride March, 2013 (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Fæ)
The reporter who was removed from her role at a news organisation after revealing alleged antisemitism from the Chicago Dyke March organisers has revealed that event organisers called her a “K*ke” and said they would “make sure your b**ch ass never writes in Chicago again."
Last month Gretchen Hammond, a transgender journalist who identifies as female and who converted to Judaism last year, broke the story of how organisers at the Chicago Dyke March ejected participants who were carrying LGBT pride flags with a Star of David on them.
The award-winning reporter for the Windy City Times was subsequently relieved of her reporting duties and moved to the paper’s sales department.
On Sunday, Ms Hammond responded to a tweet from the Chicago Dyke March gloating about “Zionist/White tears”, by saying:
“You attacked, humiliated and robbed me of a job. No tears. I forgive you. Just hope you learn how destructive and pointless hatred is”.
Ms Hammond followed up with another tweet saying:
“I will not comment on any decision made by my present employer or impugn the organization. The DMC [Dyke March Chicago] threatened me then bragged about it”.
However, Ms Hammond went into slightly more detail on her Facebook page. Discussing a deleted tweet by the Chicago Dyke March which used the epithet “Zio”, a term popularised by Neo-Nazis, she said that the March organisers had “attacked me in much the same manner only using words like " k*ke" and also said they would ‘make sure your bitch ass never writes in Chicago again’.
“However, both my God and learned pragmatism taught me to forgive and I do, with all my heart. Also, from what I have seen over the past couple of weeks, the majority of the LGBT community and those outside of it do not align themselves with vicious bigotry.
“The push back against the DMC has been unified in that respect, even between left and right”.
Last Thursday Ms Hammond spoke at the headquarters of the Algemeiner news site, which had broken the story that she had been removed from her reporting role.
She described the LGBT “landscape” in Chicago as “beautiful, but added there was also a “great ugliness” growing inside it.
“So two weeks ago I ran afoul of that ugliness,” Ms Hammond said. “Obviously. By reporting on this growing, cancerous sore within the community. Instead of sticking to a narrative where all our issues were the result of right wing attackers, I simply wrote about a scene that demonstrated that we're pretty good at causing problems for ourselves sometimes.
“So the rest of the world shook their heads in astonishment, some with a smug 'what did we tell you about the Left', while the voices of these three [ejected] girls, who went to a Pride march, were silenced. And then, [so was] the reporter who told the story.
“When you lose your voice, even for two weeks, the isolation is unbearable. I mean, you want to write, but who's reading? You want to cry out, but who's listening?
Although we're very much maligned as journalists these days, so much maligned that lawyers are coming up with mean jokes about us.
“But we do what no-one else can, whether they're politicians or a pencil pusher. We can look over the walls that people build between themselves and we can demolish them.
“They say our profession is dying, they say that we're obsolete or fake. But as long as we can see our communities, as long as we are brave enough to amplify their voices, and as long as we make sure that we never lose our own, our stories will not be silenced. And thank you for making sure that mine never was”.
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Jewhaters on the left, what a surprise. And the last thing the left wants is reporters reporting the news. Unfriendly news, to their interests, is to be suppressed.
Of all the LGBT "landscapes" I've seen, they all center around the pathological desire for sex, without limits, without restrictions, without any judgement and extreme narcissism. The result always and everywhere is all the pathologies we all know about - disease, violence, depression, addiction, etc....
Any day now..... Any day.....
“When you lose your voice, even for two weeks, the isolation is unbearable. I mean, you want to write, but who’s reading? You want to cry out, but who’s listening?
These are some “nasty” women.
Perv virtue signaling versus marxist bigotry. Pop some corn and watch the kittens fight.
Could it be the frustration of fighting “nature.”
I would argue that if they did not announce what they did with their baby making parts that 99.99% of their interactions would be based on their personaility and their strengths and weaknesses.
But its all about the Orgasm.
“You attacked, humiliated and robbed me of a job. No tears. I forgive you. Just hope you learn how destructive and pointless hatred is”.
No chance. They’ve learned that hatred pays, that they can use it to punish and silence people who say things they don’t like. Ernst Rohm would be proud. “Aryan. The Aryan. The Ary-ary-ary-ary-aryan. And we keep marching on (storm trooper chant from The Great Dictator).”
Your employer, against whom you won’t speak, has learned that cowardice pays, and that even when they’re wrong, they write your paycheck, and that means you must take their sh!t and call it chocolate pudding and like it.
For two decades, I have been saying that Leftism is at war with Judaism and American Jews will have to chose between the two. Sadly, American Jews are choosing leftism. The author is on her own.
Just as they love the military.... yea who knew. Another area where the Left will ban your knowledge as a hate crime;)
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